Bruce

This is an action by the plaintiff for a divorce from the defendant.

The parties intermarried in the month of March, 1896, the defendant having previously been married and raised a family of children by his former wife.

An interlocutory decree, adjudging plaintiff to be entitled to a divorce, was rendered and entered.

The decree, however, assigned to the defendant the homestead of the parties and awarded to the plaintiff, as alimony for her permanent support and maintenance, the lump sum of $4,500, with interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent per annum., from the date of the rendering of said judgment until said sum is paid, the same to be a lien on the homestead property referred to.

This appeal is by plaintiff from said last-stated portion of the decree.

The sole ground for the divorce, as set out in the complaint, is extreme cruelty, charged to have been committed by the defendant on the plaintiff for a series of years by various and numerous alleged violent acts and words on the part of the former.

The complaint further alleges that the defendant “is the owner and possessor of a large amount of real and personal property of the value of about $28,000, from which…